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Who will replace Musharraf?

August 18, 2008 - 2:49 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-18 03:11:40

Richard,

The Taliban are only one hundred miles from Lahore and Islamabad. Isn’t the political vacuum in Pakistan likely to be an opportunity too good to pass up, enticing the Taiban to expand their ‘Islamic Republic of Waziristan’ toward Lahore and/or Islamabad?

Democracy in Georgia teeters, but if democracy in Pakistan falls to the Taliban anytime around the anniversary of 9/11, then who gets elected to be the American president?